Synopsis
The collected stories of Russian Jewish writer Isaac Babel. A protege of Maxim Gorky, Babel served in a revolutionary cossack regiment and later came to be regarded as a leading proletarian writer. Arrested in 1937, he died two years later in a concentration camp.
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Review
"Amazing not only as literature but as biography."
"Marvelously subtle, tragic, and often comic."
A monumental book.--Jonathan Rosen
A triumph Peter Constantine's translation is extraordinary.--James Wood"
A celebration of literary genius framed by twentieth-century tragedy...[Babel's stories] have an electrifying cumulative impact...He is a writer who stabs the mind and the heart and the inner eye with short, savage strokes.--Richard Bernstein
A triumph...Peter Constantine's translation is extraordinary.--James Wood
About the Author
David McDuff's translations for Penguin Classics include Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot, and Babel's short stories. David McDuff's translations for Penguin Classics include Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot, and Babel's short stories.
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